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Zune 2.0

Tue Nov 13, 2007, 7:12 AM
  • Mood: Nervous
  • Listening to: The Adam Carolla Radio Show (Podcast)
  • Watching: Avatar: The Last Airbender
  • Playing: Guitar Hero 2 (360)/Orange Box (360)
If I can afford to get a new MP3 player (or whatever they're called these days) this year, I will...but I'm torn between my arch-nemesis Apple's iPod Touch and the new Zunes (which are released today).

See, the iPod Touch is what I've wanted for a long while (even before the iPhone was official). It's an interesting interface that I'd love to play with. There's web access and a nice big screen to watch podcasts on for when I'm on business trips. It seems like a new step forward and not just "here's last years model with more room and now we finally do something our competitors have been doing for years".


But then I have to hand it to Microsoft. They seem to learn from their mistakes lately (I'm on the fence if I can include Vista on that--since a lot of people seem to hate it). The 360 is a huge leap from the XBox [1] (it even beat out the PS3 in Japan last month--thanks to a couple of games--that's huge), I really dig this year's Office products, and they're feeling a little less "evil" these days.

Now the first Zune wasn't anything too special. Nothing super-wrong with it...just...another clunky MP3 player that's "there" on some parts and drops the ball everywhere else. But today they released the NEW Zune which seems much sexier and usable (I hear you can wirelessly sync your podcasts and stuff now...and the new Zune software looks less like a shitty version of WMP). Plus my g/f has become a Zune whore (BTW...you OLD Zune owners have a major update today...go get it, it's basically the Zune 2.0 features)...so I'm interested in having a unified system for MP3 player-ness....thing.




Which would YOU get?

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~exdevlin:iconexdevlin: Nov 13, 2007, 9:13:30 AM
Being totally anti-Apple-hype that I often characterise myself with whenever an Apple-fanboy starts going off about their new iWhatnot, I'd say go for the Zune. M$ seems to be doing better lately, after their huge slump on quality the last 7 or so years.
~DeathPoint:iconDeathPoint: Nov 13, 2007, 9:19:58 AM
I read up a little on it since posting this journal and I'm a little bummed that they took away AutoPlaylists (aka Smart Playlists) and stars...both of which I love. Still...I'm getting $80 in side-work money soon and am leaning even more toward Zune. Do you think a 8 GB flash-based is good enough, though? Or do I go for 80 GB?


I'm only used to hard-drive players.






Meh, and another downside I thought of is my car has added support for an iPod. Damn, now I'm not sure again.

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~exdevlin:iconexdevlin: Nov 13, 2007, 10:02:35 AM
Feh. iPods.

Anyway, it's totally up to you, but I like flash drives, because.. they're utterly noiseless and don't require spinning parts, which means your battery will last far longer. Are you really gonna carry 80GB of music with you at any given point and time?
~DeathPoint:iconDeathPoint: Nov 13, 2007, 11:33:44 AM
I've been happy at 20GB all these years. I'm not sure 8GB is enough. I want someplace closer to 20GB...especially once you add video podcasts into the deal. Plus the price difference between 8 and 80 is $50.

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~K00PA-TR00PA:iconK00PA-TR00PA: Nov 13, 2007, 5:35:03 PM
For $50, the 80GB is better worth it. Why not just wait a couple weeks, and save $50 up, than spend your money now, and constantly have to change the loaded songs.

Plus, with 80BG you can use it for transferring data from one comp to another, load pointless videos, and use it pretty much as another hard drive.

The iPod and Zune use the same 32 pin port on the bottom, so I don't know if the car thing will work, but there's forms of Linux you can load onto a Zune (or iPod) and there's probably some plugin that would make it work.

These are all my understandings, They should be right, unless there have been some HUGE changes in the last half a year.

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~GwenieNiccals:iconGwenieNiccals: Nov 14, 2007, 12:44:27 PM
I can't support Apple's "we made it look pretty, buy it!" thing. Even tho I like pretty things. It's just no one will tell me why Windows is evil. Go Vista! :D

The only bad thing I've come across so far is that editing of info on tracks has become a tad harder and limited. But I got 90% of that done on the old Zune software so it's not that big of an issue for me.

And I love that my Zune doesn't tell me I can't have photos on it even tho I have 100 MB of space left on the damn thing! They didn't fix that with the 2nd generation Nanos either. Maybe the new ones do, probably not. Screw you, iTunes. XD

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~GwenieNiccals:iconGwenieNiccals: Nov 14, 2007, 12:47:03 PM
Also, the issue with the track info will only really matter if your really OCD about shit like I am.

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